Hardware hacker knocks up own Google AR glasses Google may have a pair of augmented reality goggles in the works but without an ETA, hardware hackers are already growing inpatient. One AR enthusiast has refused to wait and put together his own impressive DIY version of the hi-tech specs. DIY Project Glass by Will Powell Designer Will Powell created his own take on the …
This is more a demo of Siri-style voice recognition than the location-aware, context-aware, image recognising concept Google was peddling.
Sure, Mr Powell copied the icons but the experience is not even close.
The glasses he uses also have a full size lens. Google is attempting the impossible (according to one AR expert by using a much smaller screen.
Iris projected imaging has been around for a while and is still being worked on, some guy recently took a Microvision ShowWX (pico projector that uses RGB lasers), added a very thick optical filter and projected the image straight onto his retina:
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/09/projecting-video-directly-onto-the-retina/
I wonder if the Google Goggles will use a retina projection technique, it'll mean you can still see the image in daylight conditions.
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